An event at the end of the year for people who have not won an event in at least 10 months. Events are labeled by anything other than an custom/breeding. Cool downs on events. I.E. You win one event and you can not join into the next one. More auction rules allowing more people to have a shot at auctions. I.E. Pure Skinwalker auction, people that already own a Pure Skinwalker can not enter. __________
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I cant seem to sleep cause of this damn ear infection, so I started to run things through my head a bit. I know what Ive said about reiterating, but I feel this is more clarifying than anything. Maybe give a little insight as to why I made this post, because its not all just about 'bawwwww' bad luck.
I've been apart of Soq now for about two years. In the beginning, the shop was pretty bad about anything newbie related, or even really being friendly in general. I came into the thread, I even posted in the newbie area but almost always got ignored. Soq wasnt as newbie friendly back then as they are now. I tried my hand at events, as little as they were, and always came up empty handed.
Now, Im your pretty average every day Gaian. Im not awesome at art, I dont have a good gig at some elite shop. I dont have the expendable income to dump RL money into this site in any means whether its Gaia itself or RL bribes. Im not rich. I dont have 'buddies' on staff. I worked off what I could and saved and saved until I could finally FINALLY afford my first Soq, which was a bribe, for 10mil.
Yes, I have a nice little herd, and all but 1 in my herd I have paid for. Totaling up to 26.66 mil. Thats not including all the other money Ive dumped into raffles and events the past two years.
Now some of you Im sure by now are also crying 'selfish' as well. Welp, Ive also given away two full Soq to newbies that owned 0, as well as paid for three newbies to get their first customs. Only one of these people did I even remotely know, so it wasnt as if I was 'gifting' friends.
If you know me, you know I dont have but maybe 5 other pets in B/C. I spend most/all my time and money here at Soq. I dont collect other pets, I dont collect avatar items. Every once in a while Ill use birthday money or something, but its so few and far between that I treat myself in such a way.
So yes, when I see people wandering around with herds of Soq and have maybe paid for one or two of them, winning the rest in events, its a little disheartening. Recently, I asked a friend with a herd of about the same size as mine, what she paid for her herd if she had to guess. The answer? About 1.5mil. Everything else was won. She also has been in the shop about a year less than I have as well.
Now, I understand that my situation, along with the one I quoted from a friend, might fall as extreme because not everyone has the same story, but I think something should be said for shop loyalty and shop interaction. And you know what, not a lot of people even fall into this category, so you arent looking at a list of even probably close to 50. More likely your looking at a small list, just like any other LL event.
Am I demanding free pets? No. Am I even demanding special events just for me? No. Ideally when I posted the thread, I was thinking, yanno, something would be nice to maybe have, at the end of the year, for people that havent had luck for the entire year. People that have been active religiously, people that have given to others, people that have paid for 95% of what they have.
Would it be a lot of checking on links provided? Probably. But its no different than checking all the other LL links. Hell, you could even just have people link to one event per month, since there is usually at least one event a month, and that would even total to just 12 links, less than the 20 required for LL breedings.
Is this a perfect solution? Probably not. I didnt claim that it was. Hell, it likely wont even work. It was merely a suggestion, because there *are* some of us out there that jump through all the hoops all the time, and would like to win something random. Just like people treasure their first basket, or their first gifting, even their first event won. And judging by the poll, there are a decent number of people that feel similar to the same way.
If you took the time to read this, thank you. I hope it explained a little more than my original post. I dont pretend to know a perfect answer, all I know is that it would be nice. I know there are reasons against this as well, and I respect those people and their opinions. Responses are welcome, tho please be nice. I *get* that some people dont think it will work. Again, this is just an elaboration on my original post.
